Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-21
BURNED TO DEATH.
THE TERRIBLE FATE OF A BOY, NEAR
OAKLAND.
A Young Lady Dragged a Quarter Of a Mile, at
The Heels Of a Runaway
Horse.

Last Saturday evening at Oakland q dis
tressing accident occurred at the residence
of Edward Walsh, a farmer residing about
two miles from town. He has several
children, among them a deaf and dumb
and otherwise afflicted boy about nine
wears of age. The boy has from his birth
manifested a disposition to play with fire,
and it has required a constant effort on the
mart of his mother to keen him from in
dulging in his peculiar fancy. Saturday
Mrs. Walsh was compelled to go to spring
near the house to get q bucket of water,
but before leaving she placed the boy in n
room with a younger child, where
there was no fire. Before she reached
the spring she heard a scream from the
children, which caused her to run to their
assistance. Upon reaching the house Mrs.
Walsh found the boy had left the room In
which she had placed him and had crossed
two rooms to a third, where an open fire
was burning. He vas standing by the hire
with his clothing in a full blaze. The
mother, in a fright, tried to tear the
child's clothing from his body, but the
material was so strong that she did not
succeed until he had inhaled the flames
and was horribly burned externally. he
died the next day. Mrs. Walsh was badly
burned herself.
There was = brief but spirited strike at
the Irondale furnace. in Preston county, a
few DAYS ago. The cause arose from the
fact that while the miners were given an
advance of ten cents recently the wages OF
the drivers were only advanced five cents
which wa unsatisfactory to the employees,
and hence the general strike. After the
men had been ont several days and many
of them were making preparations to leave
Col. Nimygie acceded to the demand OF
the drivers and allowed them an equal ad-
vance with the miners, upon which all
hands returned to work without further
cermOny.
About ten days ago the authorities at
Clsrksburg received a letter from the OH
Gals at Cheyenne, W.T., saying a nan vas
in jail there for killing a man in Harrison
county in 1886. At first it WAS supposed
to be j. r. Kelley, who killed Owens, but
recent developments show that one Irwin
Kidd, who wanted a free ride to Clarks-
burg, had confessed to killing Owens and
was arrested, hoping the ruse would not be
discovered until the officer had arrived in
West Virginia with him. He will not get
that free ride this time.
A Fellowship in the Royal Society of
London, England, has been conferred upon
DR.. C.. L. Blubaugh, of Huntington, he
cause of some difficult and successful sur
gical operations performed by him which
received favorable notice in the medical
Journals Of New York and London. 1t is
said there are but seven living Americans
who are members of the Royal Society,
and DR.. Blubaugh is the youngest of these.
Score one more mark for the little Moun-
tain State.
On complaint of John F. Thomas, n
postonice special agent, +. j. Hayes, OF
Wetzel county, was on Friday last brought
before T. H. Il. Staggers, Esq, L. 5. Com
missioner of Fairmont, upon a charge OF
having used a cancelled stamp in mailing
a letter, in violation OF law. Upon hear
ing the testimony, the Commissioner re-
quired the accused to execute bond in the
penalty of $500 for his appearance at the
next term of the United States Court at
Clarksburg.
While Miss Ida Shields, of Ellenboro,
wa horseback riding, n few days ago, the
animal, a spirited one, became unman-
ageable, and, giving a plunge, threw the
lady off, her habit catching in the saddle.
She was dragged nearly y quarter of a
mile in this way, the horses iron hoofs
striking her in the face aud body. When
found she was n mass of blood, nearly all
her clothes torn off, and 80 dangerously
hurt that it is thought she cannot recover.